This reflection begins with a conversation about an INTJ panel that talked about being emotionally disconnected and ends with a conversation about the collective and historical emotions surrounding the guilty verdict of Derrick Chauvin. In between these two ends is a discussion on the unspoken narratives and expectations that are connected to systems that harm (how most people lean into those expectations as opposed to disrupting them).

This episode explores four types of reflections (as related to introverted intuition). It also explores happiness as 1) a situation; 2) a state of mind; or 3) a biological condition. Additional subthemes: history; personality typing; school buildings, and Ni and blackness.

This reflection ends with an odd conversation on high frequency thinking and low frequency thinking. However, most of the episode is about a survey of my morning thoughts: being positive; feeling men and tertiary Fi; updates on social engineering as an INTJ (in the Meyers Briggs system); the politics of podcasting; and resolving my instinctual stack as a Type 8 (in the Enneagram system).

This reflection considers neoliberism (as relating to social justice) and then presents critical theory (as a praxis) as an alternative route to having an impact in the world. Additional concepts mentioned: Te (MBTI), 8 (Enneagram), power, conservatism, bootstrapping, being unpolished, and podcasting woes.

This reflection is third in a series on survival instincts [recorded April 4, 2021]. It possibly has two distinct parts. Part I is about personality theories and when/why I return to them. Part II is about two of those theories: a) the Enneagram (with consideration toward instincts being a fixed treatment or a preferred treatment); and b) the Graves Model (considering the model as one for collective/social growth). I bring the two parts together by considering the ways the outer world impacts the inner world; and then in return, the ways we (through our inner world) impact the outer. I fall into two short (but noticeable) rabbit holes: 1) about justice and competing oppression; and 2) self-serving benefits of denying the invisible layers of the social world.

This reflection is Part II in a series on survival instincts [recorded March 23, 2021]. It has two parts. In the first part I consider myself as a social 8 vs self-preservation 8 (based on the Enneagram). In the second part I contrast MBTI against the Enneagram, defining the former as a system for cognitive orientations and the latter as a system for emotional orientations. I process the history of emotions, thinking and language as relating to the human brain. I bring it all together in an attempt to understand the role emotions play in the activation of our survival instincts. An assignment is given to listeners at the end and will be eventually posted at www.yournidom.wordpress.com.

This reflection is Part I in a series on instincts (as relating to the Enneagram personality system [recorded March 6, 2021]). Here I talk about two of the three survival instincts (self-preservation and sexual) and align them to my identity as a Type 8 in that system. This reflection gets personal about sex, friendship, politics and spirituality in a way that is unusual for me in public spaces. As usual, there is a cool assignment at the end (which will eventually get posted on my website: www.yournidom.wordpress.com).

This episode ends with a discussion about growing and becoming your tomorrow. In route, I talk about bringing all my recent growth points together for a better whole and, more importantly, taking action. Part of taking action is understanding the relationship between your yesterday, your today, and your tomorrow. In the first part of the reflection I talk about learning, feeling settled and the approval of a major proposal (which is significant to that which I have been masterminding). This is a good episode for those who are entrepreneurial, spiritual and reflective.

This reflection ends with a question about the core self as being organized and stable. It also raises the question of pursuit when that core self is not organized and stable. Throughout the reflection, this question is being raised as a list of seemingly disparate events and concepts: yet, they all come together as a lens for unification and stabilization of the core. FYI: there are a few distractions in the first part of the reflection.

This Reflection is Part 2 to an ongoing reflection called "The Weekend." In it, I consider requirements necessary for being in the moment (the dip) and enjoy (not begrudge) the sensations of the experience. I also consider my life as the sum total of choices I've made in not being in the dip (not being a sensations person) and the implications of having different priorities because of it. I end with a powerful assignment--asking my listeners to question their relationship to the dip and consider new discoveries of the self when that relationship is inverted. Frameworks centered: ENFJ, ESFJ, Ni, Fe/Fi and Ni.